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by subungual 6y ago
Honestly, a lot of my objection is to the naming of this list. "Western works my review-based model scored the highest" just doesn't generate clicks the same way.
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by subungual 6y ago
Roughly 1% of the cattle produced in the US are grass fed (source below). The rest are fed in feed lots and receive primarily a diet of corn and soy. The rule of thumb is that for each step you go up the food chain, an order of magnitude of
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by subungual 6y ago
The ratio of male to female authors and the small subset of countries that absolutely dominate this list tell me just about all I need to know about it. Sure, they qualify how the list was built at the top, but titling it "The Greatest
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by subungual 6y ago
This is why I said it may take a while to catch on. Morality and norms are dynamic things. Raising animals for the sole purpose of butchering them is an incredibly inefficient way to feed people. Once we move beyond it, I have little doubt
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by subungual 6y ago
Right there with you. Didn't sign up to watch a video of someone mutilating a corpse, and I didn't read your comment until it was too late. A content warning in general would be nice for these situations, as I'd probably clic
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by subungual 6y ago
It's such a refreshing contrast to status quo anti-intellectualism the way he hams up the shame of Hotep's not knowing.
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by subungual 6y ago
Most RNA viruses are not incorporated into DNA. SARS-CoV-2 is what's called a "positive sense" RNA virus, which means that it is directly translated by cellular machinery to produce more virus copies. It should have no intera
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by subungual 6y ago
We grow plants to feed the animals we raise for food. This is far less efficient than eating the plants themselves, and it leads to more animals being killed for the reasons you mention.
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by subungual 7y ago
This article is terrible and did the grave disservice of not mentioning the work that has been done on this front using rats. Obviously, we cannot ethically reproduce the RCTs in humans to establish cause and effect, but there's suffic